Saturday, 9 November 2019
An idiots guide to an Idiot: Gigs, gigs, gigs.
An idiots guide to an Idiot: Gigs, gigs, gigs.: Well you know me and a live gig! Nothing better! Already we have a few dates in the diary for next year. Saxon in March. This should have t...
Gigs, gigs, gigs.
Well you know me and a live gig! Nothing better! Already we have a few dates in the diary for next year.
Saxon in March. This should have taken place in October but Biff Byford the singer had to have a heart bypass hence the dates of the tour being put back. This gig will be a cracker with the supports being Girlschool, Diamond Head and Krokus (on their last tour ….supposedly!) and with it being at the Hammersmith Apollo, or whatever they call the Hammy Odeon now, a visit to the first class Dove near the Thames beckons. Dinner there as well I suspect, cant wait!
Soon after Saxon we go to Islington to see Magnum. My fourth time of seeing them, Tara's third & Kevin's 18th ! Their support is called Theia, found them on You Tube and the sound quite good.
After that in May we go to see Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds at the Birmingham Arena. Tara's choice this one, she gamely comes along to most of the old headbangers I like so its only fair that if it comes up, we see bands she particularly likes! Don't know of any support at present. Well that's three booked for 2020 plus the New Forest Folk Festival in July, though 2019 isn't finished music wise. For my Birthday we are seeing Airbourne in Kentish Town at the end of the month. Their supports are Cellar Door Moon Crow from Sheffield, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown from Nashville & with Airbourne from Oz it'll be quite a multi national gig & quite frankly I can't bloody wait! Got all 5 of Airbourne's studio albums and there's some good stuff there! But it doesn't stop there. On my actual Birthday Tara has booked us a night away in Oxford (always a great city to visit) to see a David Bowie tribute act. I never got to see the man himself so this reckons to be a real treat. Live music. You can't bloody beat it!
Saxon in March. This should have taken place in October but Biff Byford the singer had to have a heart bypass hence the dates of the tour being put back. This gig will be a cracker with the supports being Girlschool, Diamond Head and Krokus (on their last tour ….supposedly!) and with it being at the Hammersmith Apollo, or whatever they call the Hammy Odeon now, a visit to the first class Dove near the Thames beckons. Dinner there as well I suspect, cant wait!
Soon after Saxon we go to Islington to see Magnum. My fourth time of seeing them, Tara's third & Kevin's 18th ! Their support is called Theia, found them on You Tube and the sound quite good.
After that in May we go to see Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds at the Birmingham Arena. Tara's choice this one, she gamely comes along to most of the old headbangers I like so its only fair that if it comes up, we see bands she particularly likes! Don't know of any support at present. Well that's three booked for 2020 plus the New Forest Folk Festival in July, though 2019 isn't finished music wise. For my Birthday we are seeing Airbourne in Kentish Town at the end of the month. Their supports are Cellar Door Moon Crow from Sheffield, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown from Nashville & with Airbourne from Oz it'll be quite a multi national gig & quite frankly I can't bloody wait! Got all 5 of Airbourne's studio albums and there's some good stuff there! But it doesn't stop there. On my actual Birthday Tara has booked us a night away in Oxford (always a great city to visit) to see a David Bowie tribute act. I never got to see the man himself so this reckons to be a real treat. Live music. You can't bloody beat it!
Thursday, 7 November 2019
An idiots guide to an Idiot: Airbourne
An idiots guide to an Idiot: Airbourne: I threatened to review new albums that had taken my fancy & even though I've had it a couple of weeks now the new offering from Airb...
Airbourne
I threatened to review new albums that had taken my fancy & even though I've had it a couple of weeks now the new offering from Airbourne must get a mention. Doing the Amazon pre order thing again I got on the day of release...which was nice, and then immediately and quite decisively I did nothing at all with it.
I left it until I was back at work and played it far too loud in the car! 'Boneshaker' is Airbourne's fifth studio album. Not as good as some of them it must be said but still pretty good. The reviewer of this album in Planet Rock magazine only gave it 3 (out of 5) saying they sounded very like AC/DC which indeed they do, but in my humble opinion that's no bad thing. They sound like early AC/DC with a real excitement and rawness to their sound that I really enjoy. Plus their gigs are considerably cheaper than AC/DC!
The album opens with the title track Boneshaker, also released as a single I think. I'd heard this one on Planet Rock so knew I liked it. There's 10 tracks on the album and to be fair none are too cerebral, but then I don't want that from Airbourne or indeed most of the music I listen to, I like a tune I can remember and if possible words easy enough for me to remember as well, so this album really delivers. My favourite track is 'Sex to go' which has a great rhythm to it (no Mrs!) and with this deluxe CD I mistakenly bought not only is there two extra live tracks(Heartbreaker & Raise the Flag) but also a limited edition poster opened out for this photo and destined to remain folded in the CD box forever more!
I'm not doing a track by track review of this fine album but will finish by saying I think its a worthy edition to the Airbourne stable of albums and I'm really looking forward to seeing them at the end of the month and hearing some of these tracks live! Rock n Roll For Life as the album states. Stay tuned!
I left it until I was back at work and played it far too loud in the car! 'Boneshaker' is Airbourne's fifth studio album. Not as good as some of them it must be said but still pretty good. The reviewer of this album in Planet Rock magazine only gave it 3 (out of 5) saying they sounded very like AC/DC which indeed they do, but in my humble opinion that's no bad thing. They sound like early AC/DC with a real excitement and rawness to their sound that I really enjoy. Plus their gigs are considerably cheaper than AC/DC!
The album opens with the title track Boneshaker, also released as a single I think. I'd heard this one on Planet Rock so knew I liked it. There's 10 tracks on the album and to be fair none are too cerebral, but then I don't want that from Airbourne or indeed most of the music I listen to, I like a tune I can remember and if possible words easy enough for me to remember as well, so this album really delivers. My favourite track is 'Sex to go' which has a great rhythm to it (no Mrs!) and with this deluxe CD I mistakenly bought not only is there two extra live tracks(Heartbreaker & Raise the Flag) but also a limited edition poster opened out for this photo and destined to remain folded in the CD box forever more!
I'm not doing a track by track review of this fine album but will finish by saying I think its a worthy edition to the Airbourne stable of albums and I'm really looking forward to seeing them at the end of the month and hearing some of these tracks live! Rock n Roll For Life as the album states. Stay tuned!
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| Limited edition poster never to be seen again! |
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